Jill Fellow: 'If Utah is going to find safe and sensible solutions to our differences on abortion — to keep pregnant people safe and to honor religious freedom — we will need to listen more closely.'
State Street was filled with hundreds during the SLC Women's March for reproductive rights and access to safe abortions, Oct. 2, 2021. Saturday's march was held in conjunction with other marches across the country.As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 20 years of my adult life, I can remember having only three conversations about abortion – ever. Only one of them involved politics.
The truth is that Mormons do not sit around talking about abortion. It’s never brought up in church. It’s not part of playdate discussions or Family Home Evening. It’s not asked about in worthiness interviews. That doesn’t mean that it’s not serious, but this is to say that it’s not discussed. No one is telling church members how to vote on abortion. No one is shaming people who might have had an abortion. No one is carrying tons of shame for a medically necessary termination.
A few commenters added that when a woman joins the Mormon church, she is asked if she has ever had an abortion. That is when I had another flashback. I am in my parents’ living room having my interview to be baptized as a member of the church. A young missionary I had never met asked me if I had ever had an abortion. We both choked on awkward laughs.
Whatever it is, people outside of the church don’t understand it and aren’t getting it right. I hear non-Mormons say things like, “The church will tell people how to vote,” or “Mormon women will vote however their husbands tell them to vote.”
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